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Job title Student Support Officer

Department Life Sciences

Salary Starting from £29,605, rising to £36,024

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Part Time, Open Ended

Placed on Friday 19 July 2024

Closing date Sunday 04 August 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference ED11909

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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Student Support Officer

About the role

The Faculty of Science is looking for a pro-active and self-motivated individual to join our team, in a new role to support the delivery of University of Bath Pharmacy education at the University of Plymouth campus. 

You will play a key role in supporting Bath MPharm at Plymouth students to support their learning experience from induction through to graduation. 

This role will be a lynchpin, monitoring the experiences of this particular group of students as they navigate life as a University of Bath student based at the University of Plymouth, calling on resources from both universities and working with academic staff to ensure their success. 

Delivering excellent service matters to us, as well as student and staff wellbeing and University reputation. 

If this approach resonates with you and you are a good teammate who also enjoys taking initiative, we would encourage you to apply.

For more information please visit - Join the University of Bath MPharm at Plymouth.

About you

The post holder will work collaboratively to deliver a high-quality standard of support, ensuring that services are efficient, effective and adapt to changing circumstances.

They will ensure that students are aware of, and have access to welfare services, skills and employability enhancement opportunities, peer mentoring and activities that promote a sense of community and belonging across both universities. 

In fulfilling these functions, the post holder will collaborate with colleagues across the University of Bath and University of Plymouth, as well as the academic leadership team based locally. 

This is a busy and varied role involving daily communication with academic staff and students, and the post holder needs to have excellent organisational skills, to demonstrate good use of initiative, and have the ability to multi-task and prioritise.

Applications from suitably qualified candidates seeking a role which offers hybrid working, full or part time working, job sharing and other forms of flexible employment are welcome.

Additional information

This is a part-time, permanent position.

For more information on the MPharm at Plymouth, please see this page: https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/join-the-university-of-bath-mpharm-at-plymouth

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.